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After a quarter-century with the British Antarctic Survey, Mike Thomson is not easily impressed by icebergs. But the one that showed up in satellite photos earlier this year was the biggest he'd seen in years. Floating slowly out to sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, the frozen slab was about 600 ft. thick, 23 miles wide and 48 miles long. It was a megaberg roughly the size of Luxembourg...
...around the building." His sly art is an anti-striptease: he reveals only edges and crinkles of himself in the pith of an essay or dramatic monologue. "Bennett has become a major figure in the English landscape despite versatility and his steadfast wish to remain hidden," writes critic David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film. "He may be Britain's best and most stubborn surviving miniaturist...
...open letter to one of his classes last week. Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson called the decision by the Black Students Association (BSA) to invite Wellesley Professor of Africana Studies Anthony Martin to speak late last month "misguided...
...year and a half ago, The Crimson used these words to defend Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53's right to argue his widely disputed and unsubstantiated theories linking grade inflation to the influx of Black students at Harvard. Misinterpreting the call of Zaheer R. Ali '94, then president of the Black Students Association (BSA), for substantiation or refutation as an attempt to limit free speech, The Crimson rushed to defend Mansfield with lofty references to the benefits of free expression and the guarantees of the First Amendment...
...Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez asked several chicken-bearers to leave Historical Study B-64: "The Cuban Revolution," according to Sam M. Rosaldo...